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Moderation Queue

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Your moderation queue (or “modqueue”) is a central listing of all the pieces of content in your community that need to be reviewed by you and your fellow moderators—including content marked as spam by the site-wide spam filter, user reports, and filtered posts and comments. To find your modqueue, go to the right-hand sidebar of your community labeled “Moderation tools” and select “Moderation Queue.”

You can choose to filter this queue however you prefer through the drop-down sorting options, which allow you to review just posts, just comments, or everything together in a single queue. You can review the report reasons for each user-reported piece of content under “reports,” and each item in your modqueue has several mod actions you can take directly from this feed.

These are the mod actions you can take from the modqueue:

spam - This will remove the item and mark it as spam. The spam filter, in turn, will take notice of this and slowly try to learn from spammed items.

remove - This simply removes the item from your community. (If the post or comment isn’t breaking a site-wide or community rule, it’s often best to let users simply downvote the unpopular or troll-ish content.)

approve - This approves the item, which makes it visible again if it was previously automatically removed as spam.

ignore reports - Sometimes, content that doesn’t break your community rules may get reported anyway. This action prevents a particular piece of content from ending up in your moderation queue over and over again.

Depending on the reason for the removal, you might also consider flairing removed posts with removal reasons and/or commenting on removed posts and comments to explain why the removal took place, to help educate your community on the rules that are in place and offer transparency on how you’ve enforced them.

Finally, as a time-saving tip, if you find that you are missing important reports from your community due to a high volume of spam, be sure to look at your "reports" before going into your modqueue.